failed mem upgrade renders wu's invisible to boinc

I have 100 wu's in my seti project folder that Boinc is failing to see. This happened after I tried to upgrade my memory from 512 to 1024 mb. The computer didn't like the new memory and I had to replace the old. Afterwards the one unit waiting to upload was still showing but the 100 in the cache were not. Also, downloading new ones is not a problem.

I am using the Crunch3r seti app and his Boinc manager. The computer is running windows xp home with sp2. No viruses or spyware, I use nod32, spyware doctor, adaware, spybot seach and destroy, process explorer and several others along with firefox with the noscript extension. I'm also behind a hardware and software firewall.

I tried removing and reinstalling Boinc. This did not help. I really don't want to just toss the 100 units waiting to be processed.

Any suggestions, PLEASE????

Sigh, ok, I'll toss them. I just didn't want other crunchers waiting for my results to time out. Next time I do a hardware upgrade I'll run my cache down to empty before I change anything.

The really sad thing is I tried to upgrade my daughters celeron 2.4ghz from 256 to 512 mb at the same time. It wouldn't even boot with the new memory. Both of these computers are made by Dell. I think my next computer I will make myself. Now I have to send back 1.5 gig of memory to the seller.

BTW, Crystallize, I looked at you site a while back, loved the female take with the boyfriend/husband upgrade joke. We were ROFL.

Thanks for replying Geek@play and Crystallize, later all...

Before you make any changes to your system you should
1) Suspend boinc network activity
2) Backup your entire boinc folder
3) Make your changes
4) If boinc has problems because of os errors/ram errors etc you can replace boinc with your backup. After correcting your problems of course>
5) Enable boinc network activity and continue to crunch happily.
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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

Believe me the client_state.xml file and the client_state_prev.xml are easy to corrupt.
>Fred

Before you make any changes to your system you should
1) Suspend boinc network activity
2) Backup your entire boinc folder
3) Make your changes
4) If boinc has problems because of os errors/ram errors etc you can replace boinc with your backup. After correcting your problems of course>
5) Enable boinc network activity and continue to crunch happily.

Yes, I know the drill, back up before changing anything. :-)

I read the forums quite often. It's just that in 18 years of messing with computer innards it was always the case of "figure out correct ram to install, shut down said computer, touch power supply to discharge static, insert ram, close case, start computer, continue happily with better computer..."

I have made changes to boinc and seti numerous times before, always backed up the folder. It just never occured to me that a ram installation could do something like this. Never caused a problem with seti classic (or anything else), first time I did this with Boinc, now it'll be added to my list of gotcha's, won't happen again.

later...

>Am I saying the ram problem is Dell's fault?<

Well, on 2 different computers (Dell) within 30 minutes, generic ram did not work as an upgrade. "Dell" recommended ram by Crucial that was twice as expensive as the generic ram. I was very carefull to make sure the specs on the generic ram were the same as the expensive "recommended" ram. On every other computer I have ever upgraded, generic ram worked fine.

Having a family, money is always an issue. This is one of the reasons I have purchased Dell in the past (good value for the money). But we have experienced a number of hardware failures with Dell, one came preinstalled with a spyware toolbar (you can read about that and all the complaints on the Dell support site), Dell no longer sends a OS recovery disk of any kind with it's new computers, they tend to use non standard parts making repair or upgrading somewhat hard (or impossible) to do.

So in summary, we have gone from being satisfied customers to the never again will one of those enter this house customers.

As far as the original question goes, why would a "value computer" insist on the most expensive Ram....

later

What is the model number of your Dell..

Well, I have a Dell Inspiron 105,550, with a nitrogen cooled 9.75 ghz quad core processor with 24 gb of ram and an Nvidia 4 video card solution sli'ed together.

My daughter's is a Dell Less-inspiredon 42, with a 50mhz pentium .5, 16mb of ram and integrated graphics solution that does 8 color. It's kind of a dud, but it knows the meaning of the universe.

Also, as per rule #50 of the evil overlord list, "My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks."

;-)

Seriously Michael, I hardly know you. All this talk about my computers is getting way too intimate. And I don't want to talk about Dell anymore. It gives me indigestion.

Have a nice weekend,
Changeling

No sense of humor I see. I won't speak to your manners. The help I asked for came in the 1st 2 posts to respond to me. It was never about my computers, but about the workunits not being recognized by Boinc.

As far as the original question goes, why would a "value computer" insist on the most expensive Ram....

BTW, I have a much too full life to respond to or engage in flame wars.